Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said the government is developing every force to protect the country’s independence and sovereignty.

Britain today became the first country in the world to approve a coronavirus vaccine developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca as it battles a major winter surge driven by a new, highly contagious variant of the virus.

Professor Fouzia Rezwan, principal of Viqarunnisa Noon School and College (VNSC), has been made officer on special duty (OSD) under the Directorate of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education.

By end of February 2020, it was very clear that the pandemic will hit the country hard. SAJIDA’s programs immediately shifted gears to align their activities with national efforts to combat COVID-19. Preparations started to convert SAJIDA’s 50-bed Hospital at Narayanganj into a dedicated COVID-19 hospital under an MoU signed with Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Bangladesh on 21st March 2020.

Anti-Corruption Commission's lawyer Khurshid Alam Khan today submitted a petition to the High Court for issuing a contempt of court rule against Ekattor TV, a private television channel, for connecting Proshanta Kumar Halder, better known as PK Halder, as a guest to a live talk show on December 28.

Nearly half a million residents in the Chinese city where the novel coronavirus first emerged may have been infected with Covid-19 -- almost 10 times the official number of confirmed cases, reports CNN quoting a study by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

Four people were killed and four others injured as the gas cylinder of a CNG-driven microbus exploded after the vehicle hit a goods-laden truck on Sylhet-Zakiganj regional road in Sylhet’s Golapganj upazila early today.

West Bengal reported its first case of a mutated coronavirus strain that emerged in the United Kingdom, taking the total number of such patients across India to 21, officials said today.

US Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris received her Covid vaccine live on television on Tuesday (Dec 29) and urged public trust in the process, while her choice of hospital highlighted the plight of the hard-hit African-American community.

The first study of the safety and effectiveness of a coronavirus vaccine in Iran began Tuesday, state TV reported, with dozens due to receive the domestically developed shot even as details about its production remained slim.

A Chinese court sentenced 10 Hong Kong activists to between seven months and three years in jail today for illegally crossing the border, in a case that has drawn international attention and concern over the defendants’ treatment.

The US State Department has approved the potential sale of 3,000 precision guided munitions to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in a deal valued at up to $290 billion, the Pentagon said on Tuesday.

The first reported US case of the COVID-19 variant that’s been seen in the United Kingdom has been discovered in Colorado, Gov Jared Polis announced Tuesday, adding urgency to efforts to vaccinate Americans.

A man was killed and four others were injured as a freight train hit a CNG-run auto-rickshaw at a rail crossing in Cumilla this morning.

Renowned dancer and actor Zeenat Barkatullah has been put on life support at a hospital in Dhaka.

The new year always carries the legacy of the year gone by. Expectations for the new year are naturally conditioned by these legacies. This is true every year. But 2021 is starting from an exceptional footing. Preceded by a prolonged 10 months of unprecedented trauma and fear all the world over, 2021 inherits the legacies of a year that will go down in history as the most cursed in last hundred years.

An earthquake of magnitude 6.4 struck central Croatia, killing five people and injuring at least 20, and shook several neighbouring countries, officials and residents have said.

The Department of Environment has fined six brick kilns Tk 10 lakh for running their businesses without clearance certificates and permission.

An Awami League unit leader allegedly ordered the torture of three brick-kiln workers in Sadar upazila of Bandarban as they demanded their arrears.

Lottery for admissions to the 683 government schools across the country from class I to IX, which was scheduled for tomorrow, has been postponed, the Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education said.